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Job|20:1|-|Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said,
Job|20:2|-|Because of this, my disquieting thoughts answer me;And hence my haste is in me.
Job|20:3|-|I hear the reproof that humiliates me,And the |a|spirit of my understanding answers me.
Job|20:4|-|Do you not know this from of old,Since man was set upon the earth,
Job|20:5|-|That the joyous shouting of the wicked is short,And the rejoicing of the profane is but for a moment?
Job|20:6|-|Though his arrogance goes up to |a|heaven,And his head touches the clouds;
Job|20:7|-|Like his own dung he perishes forever;Those who have seen him say, Where is he?
Job|20:8|-|Like a dream he flies away and is not found;Indeed he is chased away like a vision of the night.
Job|20:9|-|The eye looks on him then sees him no more,Nor does his place observe him anymore.
Job|20:10|-|His children seek the favor of the poor,And his hands return his wealth.
Job|20:11|-|His bones are full of youthful vigor,Yet |1|it lies down with him in the |a|dust.
Job|20:12|-|Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth,Though he hides it under his tongue,
Job|20:13|-|Though he favors it and will not forsake it,But holds it in his mouth;
Job|20:14|-|His food in his bowels is changed;It is the |a|venom of asps within him.
Job|20:15|-|He swallows down riches and vomits them up;God casts them forth from his stomach.
Job|20:16|-|He sucks the poison of asps;The tongue of the viper slays him.
Job|20:17|-|He will not look on the rivers,The streams flowing with honey and butter.
Job|20:18|-|He will return what he toiled for and will not swallow it down;And he will not rejoice according to the wealth of his trading.
Job|20:19|-|For he has oppressed and abandoned the poor;He has violently seized a house that he did not build.
Job|20:20|-|Because he knew no respite in his craving,Of that which he desired he will save nothing.
Job|20:21|-|There will be nothing left of what he has devoured;Thus his prosperity will not endure.
Job|20:22|-|In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be distressed;The hand of everyone in trouble will come against him.
Job|20:23|-|In order to fill his belly,|1|God will send the burning fierceness of His wrath on him
And will rain it upon him as his food.
Job|20:24|-|He will flee from the iron weapon,But the bronze bow will strike him through.
Job|20:25|-|He draws the arrow out, and it comes out of his body;Indeed the glittering point goes forth from his gall.
Terrors come upon him.
Job|20:26|-|Total darkness is laid up as his treasures;A fire not fanned by man will devour him;
It will feed on what is left in his tent.
Job|20:27|-|The heavens will reveal his iniquity,And the earth will rise up against him.
Job|20:28|-|The increase of his house will departAs things swept away in the |a|day of His wrath.
Job|20:29|-|This is the wicked man’s portion from GodAnd the inheritance decreed to him by God.
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